Monday, March 28, 2011

The description says that the opening is from 7 to 11 but if anyone wants to see me it would be best to be there before 8:30. I have to go home to take care of our animals and enjoy my early bedtime.I have two sculptures and a video in the show.

. . . is better than being trampled in the crowd. Given just over 7000 runners were in the Around-the-Bay 30 km race and given that most of them were faster than I am, I chose to be in the back of this crowd. Actually, I am probably not even in this photo yet. Fleur-Ange was on a pedestrian overpass looking for me when she took this photo. She almost missed me but managed to get a photo of my back from the other side of the overpass a bit later.

I finished in 3 hours 47 minutes or 10 minutes faster than three years ago when I was only 65. I felt better than I had in the previous race but was having a bit of vertigo in the morning and during the run so perhaps without that I could have been a bit faster. Not much though.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Fluffy met a snow plough sometime in the last 24 hours. He is buried under the big willow by the road. Very sorry to see him go! He was the grey cat in the middle of this family group photo taken last Monday.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Monday, March 21, 2011

From my large collection of wild flower photos, I have picked out about 35, so far, to process and will print 20 for an art photo show. In addition i am making up a photo book which I hope will turn out well enough to offer for sale and I have also made up a collection of some of the same photos in a photo frame that will be identifying all of the flowers. As a last addition, I want to print up some to poster size. Hope I can get all of that done in the next eleven days.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

I am working on a flower photo art show that will show in April. I plan to have 20 8x10 framed photos, a slide show on a photo frame, and a book to show. The will be lots of work between now and April to get ready!

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Snow again this morning. Will it ever stop? Oh well, it was easier to take with the songs of Red-wing Blackbirds, Chickadees, Blue Jays, Cardinals, Crows, Juncos, and even a Robin this morning. It's nice to hear bird songs again as the sun come up.

Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Using an old spring and scraps of wood I came up with this sculpture and then was offered the challenge of making a video. The first video, or rather the sixth version of the first video, has been chosen to be shown in an April art show. This is not that video but a collection of still photos that I played with to make a different kind of video. I have a long way to go to be able to make a video without much effort.

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

OK, now I am over my dizzy spells and Gertrude, our mother goat, is dizzy. Fleur-Ange called the vet and she came over and gave Gertrude several injections today and left more to be given over the next week. Thank goodness for neighbours that can give needles!!!

Monday, March 07, 2011

Finally felt dizzy enough and long enough to have Fleur-Ange phone the doctor for me. (I hate phones.) Long story made short. I was told to go to emergency. Then I got to wait for just over 4 hours to see a doctor, have my blood pressure taken over a half dozen times, had an EEG, and finally told that I have a common inner ear problem that is not serious and will go away on its own but possibly return. Nice to know that i am not having a stroke or heart attack but was it really worth over 4 hours of my life? Guess so, I do feel better.

Saturday, March 05, 2011

Our east pond is full and way past it's usual banks with all the snow melt being added to by lots of rain falling on frozen ground. It is more pleasant due to the sound of Red-winged Blackbirds and the sight of willows starting to open their buds. Now if it were not for the forecast of snow tonight . . . .

Thursday, March 03, 2011

Woke up this morning feeling dizzy. Not sure what that is all about. Better by 10 a.m. but still a bit of a worry. Meanwhile, when I went out to feed the animals this morning there were lots and lots of Red-winged Blackbirds in our trees. They were singing and chirping and hopping about the trees as if spring were really here in spite of the -12 C temperature and the fact that I have never seen the so early in March on our property before.

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About Me

I have wandered, walked, run, backpacked, cycled, and skied several thousands of kilometres in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, and the South Pacific.
I have also canoed through many lakes and rivers. I have wandered as far north as the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories of Canada and as far south as the South Island in New Zealand. I have wandered to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and to the tops of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Ben Nevis in Scotland, Mount Washington in New Hampshire, and many other mountains in the Appalachian chain.
My longest walk was a 700 kilometre (435 mile) backpacking summer on the Appalachian Trail. My most challenging canoe trip was through most of the length of the Churchill River in Labrador.
Regardless of my foreign wanderings many of my most pleasurable wanderings have been within 10 km (6 miles) of wherever I happen to be living.
In words from the character Samuel Hamilton in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, "I take a pleasure in inquiring into things. I've never been content to pass a stone without looking under it."